Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 11:43:34 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WordPerfect 8.0 For Linux works :-) Message-ID: <19981220114334.Z24125@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 03:45:55PM -0800 References: <19981220100735.L24125@freebie.lemis.com> <199812192345.PAA01331@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 15:45:55 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >> On Saturday, 19 December 1998 at 14:06:45 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: >>> [Brett Glass] >>>> >>>> It and every object file it generated had to >>>> be branded to work. And linking failed unpredictably, even under >>>> 3.0-current which uses a Linux ELF ld(1). I am still uncertain as >>>> to why it is so troublesome; it doesn't use kernel threads or >>>> anything else that's been known to cause problems with Linux apps. >>> >>> ktrace is your friend, perhaps. >> >> Once somebody fixes it to trace Linux executables. > > It's never needed fixing. Ah. On Mon, 18 Aug 1997 13:07:39 +0930 (CST), Michael Smith wrote: >> OK, I didn't mention the setpgids and the mincores, because they seem >> to occur more often in such loops. But why the TIOCSETD? > > I think you're suffering from syscall confusion here. The BSD ktrace isn't > much help when it comes to tracing Linux syscalls. > > Specifically, mincore() is 78, but linux syscall 78 is gettimeofday(), > and setpgid() is 82, which is linux's select(). Fortunately, ioctl() > is 54 for both systems. > What do you think we've been using all along? I don't know. You didn't tell me. > Do you ever read the -emulation list? Frequently. What are you thinking of? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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